# Our mission and values RARI DAO is a community-governed, decentralized autonomous organization (DAO for short) that promotes ecosystem growth and **shapes the future of the two core infrastructure layers:** 1. **Rarible Protocol – open-source and free-to-use infrastructure for building** NFT apps and experiences, such as marketplaces, wallets, analytics and more. 2. **RARI Chain – a secure and low-cost Ethereum L3 chain** that guarantees royalty payments through enforcement on the node level. We are committed to broadening the NFT use case horizon by creating a creator-centric and fully decentralized robust ecosystem. **RARI DAO governs the following areas under its mandate:** * RARI DAO treasury (approving budgets, incentive programs, allocating grants, and more) * Ecosystem growth of the two products in the RARI ecosystem: Rarirble Protocol and the RARI Chain This vision is being brought to life through a robust governance architecture that lets anyone get involved in this decision-making by locking $RARI to exercise your voting rights. ### Core values The guiding, core values of the RARI DAO are the following: **Autonomy** * Prioritized resource allocation for autonomous mechanisms rather than programs reliant on human execution * Governance minimization * Algorithms rather than bloated DAO operations run by humans **Efficiency & Accountability** * Sharp focus on optimizing available resources * Accountable parties, measurable deliverables and milestones for every proposal **Long Term Sustainability** * Strategic decision making for the long term * Zero tolerance for short-term profit seeking * Reinvesting and compounding value (vs. external extraction) --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://rari-foundation.gitbook.io/rari-dao-knowledge-base/our-mission-and-values.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.